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"The purpose of this document is to 1) provide a historical accounting of previous methods used to generate the current geographic area measurements, 2) provide comparable geographic area measurements for the full extent of the AFSC longline survey u...

Geographic area sizes (km2) are used for computing abundance indices for sablefish and other groundfish species caught in the Alaska Fisheries Science Center's annual longline survey. These areas were devised before geographic information systems (GI...

These interim and final harvest specifications will, if approved, become the upper limit of groundfish harvested in the fisheries during calendar year 2000. : The environmental review process led us to conclude that this : action will not have a sign...

"The contraction of the range of this population northward into the upper Inlet makes it far more vulnerable to catastrophic events with the potential to kill a significant fraction of the population. The population is not growing at 2% to 6% per yea...